The Sunbeam was directed by D W Griffith in 1912. When a film called The Sunbeam refers to a little girl with a dead mother, you know you are in for a bit of sentimentality and so you are. But given that, it is a neat little film with an interesting picture of life in a tenement house and the social mores of the day.


This movie is part of the collection: Silent Films

Producer: D W Griffith
Audio/Visual: sound
Keywords: silents;

Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal

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Reviewer: The_Emperor_Of_Television - - September 14, 2012
Subject: Not bad
Pretty nice little film.

I must admit I had to google "scarlet fever" (referenced in a major plot device) to see what it was.